Commentary: Shelter vandalism damage, community impact runs deep

1:19 AM,
Dec. 2, 2011

Written by

Jennifer Stelter

Each year Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services places life-sized silhouettes along the Christine Ann Center domestic abuse shelter grounds on Algoma Boulevard in Oshkosh. The silhouettes represent victims killed at the hands of their partners. They also contain biographical information, deeply conveying the loss of a human being to domestic or partner violence.

On October 8, the corrugated plastic silhouettes were torn down, decapitated and urinated upon. As if this wasn't disturbing enough, some of the individuals receiving services at Christine Ann Center witnessed the ...